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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:16:02 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie question...
Message-ID:  <20000329101602.B33199@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <200003290632.WAA62636@jchurch.meer.net>
References:  <200003290632.WAA62636@jchurch.meer.net>

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On Tue 2000-03-28 (22:32), George Neville-Neil wrote:
> 1) How do I do development and not overwrite my work when cvsup'ing?
> 
> 2) How do I know when cvsuping will NOT trash my current setup?  It would
> be cool if a "last known good source tree" were stored somewhere.  I ask
> this because I sup'd this morning and got toasted and had to sup/build again.

If you have about 600-900Megs free, just cvsup the CVS tree.

> 3) Is there a guide on using CVS with CVSup (the man page is not particularly
> helpful) so that I can have a CVS tree that is updated by cvsup?

Oh, and here you ask about it.  Just install /usr/ports/net/cvsup-mirror,
and answer the relatively easy questions.

I'll get to writing something about it in the handbook.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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